My boss is unreasonable in a lot of ways. She is a very stressy, shouty person and a complete control freak -think telling me to make a phone call for her and then shouting in the background while i am making said phone call. If things aren't right she can go on and on and on about.
Luckily I'm used to her and don't make many mistakes so we rub along together ok.
I'm on my holidays now. Two weeks off. A week at home, and then a week away. On Monday I get a text from her, "can you call me at work i need to ask you something" I was out with friends and didn't want to be stressed so I didn't call. I text her back that night saying "sorry, i was out, hope you got it sorted." She texts back "Can you ring me tomorrow?" making me anxious for the rest of evening. Tuesday i called into the office taking my youngest one with me as a human shield. She was out. Another flurry of texting followed and another evening of stressing.
Wednesday she finally phoned me. It turned out that all it was, was that she had lost something that we use all the time that is kept in my top drawer. She claimed not to be able to find it. I was baffled and said it's in my top drawer at the front. She opened the drawer and found it exactly where i said it was. She then had a go at me about the state of my drawers and said it would have to be sorted out when i get back!! Honestly it's just stationery in my drawers, not that much of a mess.
The AIBU is that she finished the call by saying she had a birthday card for me in the office and i'd have to go in and get it. My birthday is tomorrow. I'm annoyed with her and think stuff your bloody card you mentalist. AIBU not to go? I know if I don't go in she will be annoyed. It may also contain money. But really I do not want to go in on my day off and I don't care if it does contain money. But I know she'll go on when I get back if I don't go. Ugh, I've got to havem't I?
AIBU?
To not go in and get my birthday card
saresywaresy2 · 13/08/2015 12:40
Say no. It's like she's on some kind of power trip! My old boss was bi-polar and she phoned me repeatedly when I was on jury duty (phones are confiscated while you're in court) to ask for a password to a system that would give her free reign to do as she pleased and would see me
Get the sack of it came to light I'd given her the password. I felt so under pressure though as she made out that the world would collapse if I didn't give her it. Needless to say she didn't get my password and the world didn't end. Thankfully she's not my boss anymore 
Of course you should drop everything you're doing to go into work and pick up a fucking card from your boss, who you don't even like and who isn't very nice to you. It's urgent! Aren't you dying to know what the card says? What if it has a picture of a kitten!! I personally don't know how you can contain your excitement until you are back from leave. 
Holy crap! I went on sick leave suddenly at 19/40, I had been creating a data base which had a ass word, they thought only I had the password, only when I went in for a KIT day 1 year later did they ask me for the password, if they had been desperate for the information at any point the reasoned IT could sort it out, it hadn't been needed.
Your boss sound deranged she could had actually tried looking herself, managed without or bought the item if desperate! and I would be looking for another job 
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Well she claims to be useless with computers, so I hope she isn't a secret mumsnetter, but I didn't go in yesterday and lo and behold - this morning there was a certain card posted through my door!! (For anyone interested it had a cake on the front!!) I take it all back
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